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Szostak's two colleagues were Elizabeth Blackburn of UC San Francisco and Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins. Apparently, the three had begun working together on the topic back in the 1980s, when none of us were even alive, much less pretentious enough to pretend that we actually know what telomerase is or what it does...
Szostak shares the award for basic research with Blackburn and Carol W. Greider, professor of molecular biology and genetics at Johns Hopkins University...
...interrogation. Her vitriol was hardly unique. Even The Weekly Standard’s William Kristol—not known for his liberalism, to say the least—said that “the media really turned on Dean.” Just last week, longtime political journalist William Greider wrote in The Nation that he had talked to a handful of top campaign reporters who were “chortl[ing] over their accomplishment” in toppling Dean...
...exploiting the democratic and capitalistic system already in place in America, said Greider, community members and investors can force the corporations to answer to them. He suggested that investors could intimidate corporations into self-reform by telling them, “We can give this money to all kinds of people. Why should we be giving it to you while you’re abusing your workers?” A corporation, said Greider, will be quick to change itself when faced with the threat of fiscal failure...
...Greider believes that community members can similarly ensure that certain levers, such as tax breaks, are given only to corporations that do work to create better worker-manager relationships. It is all possible, he assured: “I’m talking about ways to get leverage and convince [corporations] either gently or harshly that they need to change. That’s how capitalism works. They play hardball every...